Bumper sticker spotted on the back of a black SUV darting through traffic near the Capitol: “Four Mo for the Mofo.” Unclear if there will be a rash of campaign paraphernalia stemming from Gov. Rick Perry’s “Adios Mofo” comment, picked up by a live microphone after a TV interview last year. The vehicle passed too […]
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Nope, it’s Chris Bell, who looms over Texas in his first campaign ad. In the ad, entitled “Think Big,” a giant Bell sits on the Capitol and overshadows the Alamo, among other Lone Star landmarks. The campaign says it starts airing tomorrow in every major market except Houston. Campaign spokesman Jason Stanford says Bell, a […]
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Kinky Friedman reports $491,372.49 cash on hand, after raising $1.55 million this reporting period. He has raised a bit less and has less cash in the bank than Democrat Chris Bell this reporting period.
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Republican Gov. Rick Perry reported having more than $10 million cash on hand today. Democratic challenger Chris Bell reported having $654,501.62. Perry reported raising $4.7 million since the last reporting period in January, while Bell reported raising $1.6 million. Cash on hand is a running tally of how much campaigns have in the bank. Libertarian […]
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Gov. Rick Perry, Texas’ first Aggie governor, is telephoning a fellow maroon-blood at noon today. You might say it’s long-distance. He is phoning astronaut Michael Fossum aboard the space shuttle Discovery. The public may listen in at www.nasa.gov.
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Scott Haywood, spokesman for Secretary of State Roger Williams, noted that Williams won the last time independent candidate for governor Carole Keeton Strayhorn took him to court. Her previous lawsuit took issue with how Williams — an appointee of GOP Gov. Rick Perry — planned to verify the petition signatures for her to get on […]
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Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, as promised, sued Secretary of State Roger Williams today in her drive to be identified as “Grandma” on the November ballot as she challenges Republican Gov. Rick Perry. Williams on Monday refused to certify Strayhorn’s preferred ballot listing, Carole Keeton “Grandma” Strayhorn. He said that would amount to putting a slogan […]
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Democrat Chris Bell says it’s “morally offensive” that the state is diverting money from helping low-income people with their utility bills while taxpayers pick up the hefty utility bill at the public housing used by Gov. Rick Perry. Perry spokesman Robert Black called it “silliness” for Bell to bring the Governor’s Mansion electric bills into […]
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She may be grandma at home and “one tough grandma” on the campaign trail, but she’ll just be Carole Keeton Strayhorn on the November ballot. Strayhorn, the state comptroller running as an independent for governor, wanted to be listed as Carole Keeton “Grandma” Strayhorn. But Secretary of State Roger Williams today announced her name will […]
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Albert Peña Jr. — Bexar County’s first Chicano (yes, that’s the term he preferred) county commissioner — could always draw a crowd, though not always a loving one. But you always knew where he stood, and he was honest and clean. Albert was laying in state at Immaculate Heart of Mary — a beautiful downtown […]
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